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Our pick of the best science shows to attend in 2018

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London will host The Future Starts Here

Studio Tomás Saraceno

ARE we headed towards a bright tomorrow or hurtling towards eternal perdition? The festivals and exhibitions so far announced for 2018 cannot make up their minds.

Will the future be kind? This is the question looming over Beveridge 2.0, a festival at the London School of Economics that will consider what is in store for William Beveridge’s 75-year-old vision of the welfare state (19 to 24 February). There is fascinating scientific insight to be had from talks examining the evolution and likely …